Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn is Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and professor of history at Harvard University. In 2010 he published The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, and his most recent book is Christian Human Rights.

No matter how good our ancestors were in creating the international human rights system, it cannot change that we might need different options now.

The human rights regime and movement are simply not equipped to challenge global inequalities.